CAPRI-RD

Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact - The Rural Development Dimension

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact – the Rural Development Dimension (CAPRI-RD) aims to develop and apply an operational, Pan-European tool including all Candidate and Potential Candidate countries to analyse the regional impacts of all policy measures under CAP Pillar I and II across a wide range of economic, social and environmental indicators, aligned with the CMEF. CAPRI-RD’s core contains consistently linked economic models at the NUTS 2 level, the CAPRI model for agriculture, and a newly developed layer of regional CGEs. Given the importance of the EU’s agricultural trade, CAPRI includes a global agricultural market model. The project will improve price transmission modelling inside the EU market, review the implementation of de-coupled payments, and maintain the CAPRI farm type layer. Harmonised and regularly updated databases, including regional Social Accounting Matrices, act as the models’ sources. Quality management for data and results is ensured by clearly documented procedures that are partly based on statistical methods and sensitivity analysis. Spatial down-scaling algorithms will break down land use results to 1x1 km grid cells to facilitate the spatially explicit calculation of environmental impacts. During the project’s lifetime, CAPRI-RD will be improved and expanded stepwise. This will enable an annual policy impact assessment of scenarios defined by a user board comprising major stakeholders at the European level, and allow contributions to be made to the yearly DG-AGRI outlook work. Further, yearly training sessions will develop the necessary capacity in the European Research Area to successfully apply CAPRI-RD during and after the project. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) will allow the scenarios to be defined, the model to be steered, and the results to be explained through tables, graphs and maps. Dissemination activities will include the distribution of reports, model documentation, GUI, code and data via the internet.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

The EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is of crucial importance to many of Europe's regions and, hence, reforms are bound to have an impact. European researchers are measuring the impact of changes to this oldest of EU policy areas.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Traditionally the EU's largest budget area, the CAP is the Union's oldest common policy area. Originally set up to ensure food security and maintain a fair standard of living for farmers, the CAP has evolved to promote such things as rural development, land custodianship and rural heritage.

Given its nature, the policy has an immense and varying regional impact, and reforms to the CAP affect Europe's regions differently. Funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the 'Common agricultural policy regionalised impact - the rural development dimension' (CAPRI-RD) project is a pan-European tool set up to gauge the regional impact of the CAP.

CAPRI-RD has analysed the regional impact of CAP's pillar I (production support) and pillar II (rural development), employing economic, social and environmental indicators.

With various achievements often exceeding the consortium's own expectations, during its lifetime the project developed databases on rural development policies and indicators, regional social accounting matrices, and CAPRI database extension and quality management. In addition, project members formulated a number of models for rural development that quantify the instruments and programmes under pillar II.

The CAPRI-RD tool will inform policymakers and other stakeholders on the consequences of changes to the CAP, thereby aiding future decision making and reforms.